Stories from Friday, July 12, 2019

To the people who are trapping cats on Taylor Street, it needs to stop. Because you are trapping family pets and taking them off. And it is uncalled for.

SIKESTON — Michael Scott Hurt, 55, died July 11, 2019, at Southeast Medical Center in Dexter.  Born April 14, 1964, at Bloomfield, son of the late Bill and Jamima Banks Hurt, he had worked as a sales representative for Frito Lays in Sikeston for 15 years. ...

MATTHEWS, Mo. — Bonnie Jo (Vinson) Armstrong, beloved wife, mother, and grandmother, of Matthews, Missouri, 77 years of age, passed away peacefully on Thursday, July 11 2019, at Southeast Missouri Hospital with the family at her bedside. Bonnie was born April 7th, 1942, in Rector, Arkansas, and she was the daughter to the late Willam Ted Vinson and Mary Ellen Scott...

When Judy Patterson’s husband Ronnie was offered a transfer with his company, it was an opportunity that was Heaven sent. “We had decided to see if we could get closer to our daughter and son-in-law, who have two young children,” Patterson explains. “I was driving to Arkansas about every other weekend to see the grandbabies, and help out when needed.”...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —The Department of Social Services and Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick have partnered to launch a newly automated process that uses unclaimed property held by the Missouri State Treasurer’s Office to pay past-due child support. ...

ORAN, Mo. — A celebration 150 years in the making will be coming to Oran beginning Sunday with a prayer service and continuing July 19 and 20. Oran, and it’s population of just 1,300, will hold a sesquicentennial celebration that kicks off Sunday with a non-denominational Community Prayer Service at 6 p.m. in the high school gym...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. - The guitar begins the song. The drummer picks up the beat. The crowd moves with the music. It could be a summer concert anywhere but for one thing: the duo behind the sounds are 11 years old. Southeast Missouri has produced break-out musicians over the years. The 11-year-old Stinnett twins may well be the next generation...

MOBERLY – Moberly Natural Crush, LLC., (MNC) has scheduled an investor meeting in Sikeston at 6:30 p.m. July 15 in the Clinton Building, 501 Campanella. MNC will be a “farmer-controlled” entity, and as such, it has been contingently approved for a $1.5 million Producer Tax Credit. That means that farmer-investors can immediately recoup between 30%-to-50% of their investment in the form of a state tax credit, and these credits are transferrable...

SIKESTON — Sikeston native Dr. Taylor Barnett has joined Barnett Family Eyecare. Barnett received a Bachelor of Science from Southeast Missouri State University and then attended optometry school at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where she graduated with honors as a doctor of optometry...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Edwin Earl McAmis has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process...